City Bike Share Program Delayed

New Yorkers will wait a little longer for the launch of the much-debated city bicycle sharing program, which will not launch until at least August, according to the Department of Transportation.

The Citi Bike program, which had been slated to begin rolling out across selected neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens in July, has been delayed for unspecified reasons, officials said Monday.

Some of the potential users of the bike-share program, a key initiative of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, were among the first to ferret out the delay. After curious followers began to question the official Citi Bike Twitter feed on the timing of the service’s launch, officials began responding last week that the service might wait until August.

In a statement, a DOT spokesman did not identify a reason for the delay.